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by: Donna Tartt  List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781400031702 ISBN: 1400031702 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 576 Publication Date: April 13, 2004 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: April 13, 2004 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A great read for those who love to explore the human psyche.Richard Papen grew up in Plano, CA; a small silicon village in the north. An only child, he was extremely unhappy there--his father ran a gas station, and his mother had to join the work force to make ends meet. After high school, Richard went to a small college in his hometown--against his parents wishes--and studied ancient Greek on his way to a pre-med curriculum. He excelled in Greek, not so in biology and science classes. One night during a long Thanksgiving Holiday, he finds ... Read More Rating:  - Not what I expectedI bought this book for Book Club and it was not at all what I was expecting. It took awhile to get into it but get better along the way. It's not the typical read I prefer and definitely dark and disturbing in parts. I suppose I would recommend it but not for a happy reading. It helps to devote time to reading and not just reading here and there before bed - you will not follow the story as well. Rating: - Hollywood Morality PaybacksI read "The Secret History" because it has been compared favourably with, and inspired, "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" The whole novel consists of "sound bites" that simply don't connect except as elements to drive the plot. For example, the idea of a "Bacchanalian" is advanced to justify one murder, and is set up in some detail in the first half of the book. After it has served its purpose, the concept is abandoned as the book disappears into a sordid world of FBI agents, ... Read More Rating: - This is a great book - a must read for the winter.I was turned on to this book after reading The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. She says that this book was the reason she began writing. I loved the Historian so much that I decided to read this one as well. needless to say, I was not disappointed. It's a nice little murder mystery with a twist. It's a really easy read - let's hope Hollywood doesn't find out about it and ruin it. Rating: - Well written page turnerI love this book. I bought it many years ago and recently gave a copy to my best friend and teenage daughter. They both thought it was a remarkable book as well. I won't go into detail about the characters or plots, as others have done, but it is a FAVORITE book of mine. 
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